Gumpaste lavender makes add a wonderful botanical feel to a sugar flower arrangement and is another great one to have in your repertoire to add a pretty finishing touch to your home bakes and cakes when fresh lavender is out of season (as well as gumpaste pansies which you’ll find a tutorial for here: gumpaste pansy tutorial). It’s a simple process to create gumpaste lavender but can be time consuming if you need to make a lot of it due to all the tiny petals required. A small spray to ... Read More...
How To Speed Up Ganaching & Frosting
We all love getting to the decorating stage of cake making, but a sharp, crisp edge and smooth base is essential before we do so. One of the more frustrating aspects of cake making is coating and re-coating your cake with frosting or ganache until you get it just right. But now you can cut down on the time it takes to achieve the perfect ganache coating with the ProFroster. Designed to smooth both the top and bottom of your cake at the same time while also creating the perfect sharp edge, the ... Read More...
A Great Idea for 2017….
This Christmas why not give yourself the gift of a wonderfully relaxing new year when the clamor for festive cakes dies down, and enjoy the tutelage of multi-award winning international cake artist, Liz Marek on The Sugar Geek Show, her fabulous online cake decorating school. Learn some of the coolest cake techniques around from the ever innovative Liz, plus catch up on those techniques you've been meaning to master all year. With a fabulous selection of over 100 tutorials, and new ... Read More...
Father’s Day Sports Cakes: Part 2
Following on from Sports Cakes for Father's Day Part 1, in Part 2 we're looking a sports from across the pond in the UK and international favourites, starting with Leslie's Cakes fabulously designed cricket cake above decked out with sporting emblems and beautiful "etched-effect" hand drawings, above. Rugby cakes will be a big favourite with lots of dads and DeVoli Cakes "mud splashed" design below left captured the rough and tumble of the game perfectly below left. On the right, Dot Clerck ... Read More...